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Showing posts with label 06. Why Has Democracy Failed?. Show all posts

Why Has Democracy Failed?



Nothing is excluded from the future. Nothing disappears definitively as long as it retains its possibilities for transformation. Democracy, under the imperatives of Anglo-Saxon postmodernity, has exhausted all its possibilities for transformation except one: to become a new totalitarianism.

Democracy is a political system that since the beginning of the 21st century has shown recurring and concerning symptoms of disappointment, frustration, and failure among the Western population. However, aside from democracy, neither Europe nor the United States have possible replacements or alternatives. The reasons for this observable failure must be sought in its main cause and genealogy: the Anglosphere, its exhausted history, its sterilizing culture, and its reformist and multisectarian religion.

One of the most visible symptoms of this democratic frustration is the increasing lack of freedom and privacy. In the West, this progressive loss of freedom is particularly unique because, unlike what happens in the People's Republic of China, totalitarianism here doesn't stem from the State but from the enemies of the State. Surprisingly, it is supported by postmodern democracy and is directed against the State and its members, through multiple ...

 

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